Word: powders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools of thought regarding pizza: the thick-crusters vs. the thin-crusters. Those of us who prefer eating pizza to eating bread with a little tomato sauce generally prefer a thin base of dough. Preparing such a pizza required consummate culinary skill; slightly undercooked pizza retains that grainy powder underneath and overcooked pizza has what I understand are called "burnt" areas. The chefs at Joe's (now on Linden street) walk this perilous tightrope and seldom fall -- and working with thin dough means shunning the net. Because he insists on a thick layer of dough, Mr. Schoen requires...
...often, military outfits accompanied the peace commissions to the negotiations, and although some Indian tribes agreed to give up the Powder River country in exchange for ammunition, blankets and other supplies, Red Cloud withheld his endorsement...
...treaty commission, however, pretended that the agreement was in effect, and the U.S. cavalry built forts along the Powder River. Red Cloud, angered by the white man's presumptuousness, defended his territory from the bluecoated invaders, setting off a series of skirmishes that included some of the cavalry's worst defeats...
...Cloud's personal war in defense of the Powder River ended in 1868, when he signed the Laramie treaty on November 6. The treaty ended hostilities, but more importantly, it gave the Black Hills to the Indians permanently. The U.S. government was not being generous-it considered the Paha Sapa a worthless piece of land...
While the reservation plans were being approved, some of Crazy Horse's braves sold themselves to the cavalry as scouts in a war against another tribe. Unable to stomach his people's disloyalty, Crazy Horse decided to return to the Powder River country, which was unalloted Indian land...